File:Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (Audubon plate, crop).jpg

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Description

Zoological illustration from a volume of articles, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907 (Mershon, editor). The caption reads: "PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria) / Upper bird, female; lower, male / Reproduced from the John J. Audubon Plate"

Date

Print date, 1907

Engraving from painting by John James Audubon in Pennsylvania, 1824.

Source

Obtained from online scan at

Author



Alternative names	Birth name: Jean-Jacques-Fougère Audubon
Description	American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter and painter
Date of birth/death	26 April 1785	27 January 1851
Location of birth/death	Les Cayes (Haiti)	New York City
Work location	Louisville, Kentucky, New Orleans, New York City, Florida
Authority control	WorldCat

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Passenger Pigeon

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Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
File change date and time	00:02, 24 April 2013
Colour space	Uncalibrated
Image height	1,829 px
Image width	2,297 px
Date and time of digitizing	01:58, 24 April 2013
Date metadata was last modified	02:02, 24 April 2013

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